Chapter 93: Han Feng Was Saved

By the very next day, Chen Wanwan had already revealed her identity.

She publicly declared that she, of the Heavenly Demon Sacred Land, would protect the Taixuan Dao Sect.

At the same time, Ji Ling'er also made a public proclamation that the Imperial Ji Clan would stand behind the Taixuan Dao Sect.

With two supreme powers no weaker than the Jiang Clan of the imperial line taking a stand, it was likely one of the reasons why the Jiang family had withheld their retaliation for a full half year.

And so, instead, the Taixuan Dao Sect’s prestige soared to its peak throughout Sword Province.

When a word was spoken, law itself followed.

Once the order was issued, all of Sword Province began to stir.

...

In the eastern reaches of Sword Province stood Phoenix Tree Mountain.

Legend said a phoenix had once descended upon this mountain, and thus it was named.

At the foot of Phoenix Tree Mountain lived a family of three: a father and daughter. The father was named Proud Sword, a blacksmith by trade, and the daughter was named Proud Lai'er, eighteen years old that year.

About half a year earlier, while the father and daughter were out buying iron ore, they met a man on the road back—an arm-limbed cripple, a mute.

Moved by compassion, they brought him home.

The way the father and daughter encountered that severed-armed, tongueless man had something of a dramatic twist to it as well.

They had been traveling peacefully along the road when Proud Sword’s right arm suddenly began to throb violently. Then, as if seized by some unseen force, it struggled madly toward a certain direction, almost dragging him away.

When Proud Sword was young, he had once gone hunting on Phoenix Tree Mountain. Because he had been delayed, he failed to make it back down in time. Night fell, and he was forced to spend the night on the mountain.

In the dead of night, a blaze suddenly erupted atop the mountain, bright as daylight. Driven by curiosity, he sneaked over to investigate and discovered a phoenix pierced by several arrows, gravely wounded.

His pity was stirred, and he went over to pull the arrows from the phoenix’s body, saving its life.

The phoenix, deeply grateful, bestowed upon Proud Sword a Phoenix Arm.

It could withstand extreme heat and could sense the grade of weapons being forged.

Yet today, that arm seemed as though it were about to break free from his control, dragging him straight to the man with the missing limb.

On the way back, Proud Sword was gloomy and heavyhearted the entire time.

Three days later, Proud Sword severed his own arm with a single sword strike and grafted it onto the person he had saved.

And that saved man was none other than Han Feng.

That day, Han Feng had his right arm cut off and his tongue removed by Chu Feng.

Yet as the chosen son of fate, he not only survived such grievous injuries, but was instead rescued by someone.

He even gained a Phoenix Arm.

What made him even more ecstatic was that

Proud Lai'er.

Proud Lai'er was an S-rank beauty.

Moreover, after Proud Sword grafted his arm onto Han Feng, his entire spirit and vitality seemed to have been drained away. His health worsened day by day, and in less than two months he passed away.

Before dying, he entrusted Proud Lai'er to Han Feng.

Han Feng did not even need to lift a finger to win her heart effortlessly.

And it was the kind of devotion that never wavered.

To Proud Lai'er, in this world, there was no one else left but Han Feng.

After Han Feng successfully won her over, the system rewards instantly arrived.

There were three great rewards in total.

Reward one: the Phoenix Divine Sword, a treasure of the Immortal Emperor Ascension Realm.

Reward two: the Water of Life.

Reward three: the Green Lotus Earth Flame, one of the thirty-three divine flames of all heavens and myriad worlds.

There was no need to speak further of the Phoenix Divine Sword: an immortal sword at the level of an Immortal Emperor Ascension Realm treasure. Combined with his Phoenix Arm, he could bring out its power to the fullest.

Just as imperial descendants used their own bloodline to unleash the Immortal Emperor treasures left behind by their ancestors.

With this sword in hand, if not for Han Feng’s insufficient cultivation, he would have been able to threaten even Void Transformation and Body Integration cultivators.

Although Chu Feng had the Burning Heaven Sword in his possession, due to various factors he could not fully unleash its power.

At most, he could draw out ten percent of its strength.

But Han Feng, by virtue of the Phoenix Arm, could bring out eighty or ninety percent of the Phoenix Divine Sword’s power.

The Water of Life could revive the dead, restore flesh to bone, and regrow severed limbs. That single drop not only raised his cultivation to the mid-stage Golden Core realm, it also caused the tongue that Chu Feng had cut out to grow back anew.

Han Feng could speak again.

As for the Green Lotus Earth Flame, it was on the same level as the Sun Glory Divine Flame.

With this fire in hand, even without the Phoenix Divine Sword, Han Feng could still look down on those of his own realm.

Having learned from the first three times, Han Feng did not rush to leave the mountain after receiving his rewards. Instead, he remained beneath Phoenix Tree Mountain and diligently cultivated.

In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed since he arrived there.

Over those six months, his cultivation had stabilized and his strength had improved.

Yet his relationship with Proud Lai'er had run into trouble.

As an S-rank beauty, Proud Lai'er was sweet-faced, gentle, and lovely, a beauty whose eyes held only him, Han Feng.

At first, Han Feng greatly enjoyed that feeling.

But as time went on,

little by little, Han Feng’s scummy true nature was laid bare.

Staying by Proud Lai'er's side, his cultivation slowed after each reward, so he began to think of leaving Phoenix Tree Mountain and seeking out all manner of heavenly daughters.

Zhao Dongdong.

Nangong Yanyan.

Lu Linglong, like a thorn, remained forever lodged in his heart.

One SS-rank beauty.

Two SSS-rank beauties.

If he could win them over, just how rich would the rewards be?

But if he was going after girls, naturally he could not bring Proud Lai'er along.

Though Proud Lai'er was an S-rank beauty, she was still only an ordinary mortal. Taking her with him would be a burden. Besides, he had already obtained the rewards.

So he spun a lie, left the foot of Phoenix Tree Mountain, and left Proud Lai'er behind to wait alone.

She waited full of hope, looking forward to the day Han Feng would return to Phoenix Tree Mountain and grow old with her.

She never knew that this waiting would last a lifetime.

Until the very moment she died, she never once saw Han Feng return.

...

Taixuan Dao Sect.

Upon the solitary mountain, Chu Feng spent each day doing nothing but cultivating.

And keeping company with the women.

His fortune value remained stuck at forty million, unable to advance an inch.

Earlier, after killing Jiang Thirteen, he had obtained a search card for a woman of destiny.

After weighing it over several times, Chu Feng finally decided to use it.

He crushed the search card.

At once, the card transformed into countless streaks of golden light that flew off in all directions. Chu Feng was stunned on the spot, thinking he had somehow come across a fake search card.

Only after half a day did those streams of golden light return.

They circled around Chu Feng’s body.

His heart stirred, and he no longer resisted, allowing the golden light to be absorbed into him.

A stream of information was swiftly taken in.

“An Miaoyi.”

“Why does this name sound so familiar?”

Then he remembered.

Chen Wanwan’s mortal enemy. Back when Chen Wanwan entered the Golden Immortal Palace, she had been schemed against and injured by her, which was why she had hidden herself in the Taixuan Dao Sect where Chu Feng was.

Unfortunately for her, she had met Chu Feng.

And Chu Feng had profited from it.

The information he had just received was actually about An Miaoyi.

From this clue, one could tell that An Miaoyi was currently in Taixuan City.

It seemed she had come for Chen Wanwan.

Chu Feng immediately found Chen Wanwan and told her the news about An Miaoyi.